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Jan-29-2011, 9:33pm
Last night I went to a guitar workshop sponsored by Flatpicking Guitar magazine. I like workshops as I don't really have the time to pursue a steady lesson course. So every so often I go to a workshop. I go to mandolin workshops when I can but I play enough guitar to warrant guitar workshops too.
Dan Miller, the magazine editor, brought super guitarists Brad Davis and Tim May with him. You never know what a workshop will be like but they had an interesting approach. They asked everybody about their interests and based on common interest they decided that right hand technique would be a good place to start.
It worked out great for me because right hand technique issues are important for guitar and mandolin both. For the first hour we had discussions and demonstrations on right hand techniques. In the second hour we did practical assessments with the instructors evaluating our techniques. That was a good as it's great to get some individual attention.
After workshop there was a house concert. Dan played bass for the session, with Brad playing mostly guitar and Tim adding reso guitar and banjo to the mix. Both of them played a couple of tunes on mandolin. Interestingly, while they played the mando well, I could tell they were guitar players playing mandolin as opposed to mandolin players. The difference is subtle but it's one you come to recgonize. It's what I used to do (only at a higher skill level) before I took some mando specific courses. The pictures show them playing Brad's glossy Collings with the ear broke off the headstock.
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Dan Miller, the magazine editor, brought super guitarists Brad Davis and Tim May with him. You never know what a workshop will be like but they had an interesting approach. They asked everybody about their interests and based on common interest they decided that right hand technique would be a good place to start.
It worked out great for me because right hand technique issues are important for guitar and mandolin both. For the first hour we had discussions and demonstrations on right hand techniques. In the second hour we did practical assessments with the instructors evaluating our techniques. That was a good as it's great to get some individual attention.
After workshop there was a house concert. Dan played bass for the session, with Brad playing mostly guitar and Tim adding reso guitar and banjo to the mix. Both of them played a couple of tunes on mandolin. Interestingly, while they played the mando well, I could tell they were guitar players playing mandolin as opposed to mandolin players. The difference is subtle but it's one you come to recgonize. It's what I used to do (only at a higher skill level) before I took some mando specific courses. The pictures show them playing Brad's glossy Collings with the ear broke off the headstock.
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